Is there a live communication element to Discourse? More like IRC than forum

[Greg11 (It Craftsmen Club)]

Is there a live or private communication element to Discourse? More like IRC or chat than forum?

[TechnoBear]

There are personal messages (which can have multiple participants, if required) - or you can set up private categories.

[steko (Stefano Costa)]

See also:

Discourse and Slack (or other group chat apps like IRC, HipChat, Gitter, etc)

Discourse vs. Slack Finding the right place for a discussion On Slack, discussions are separated into different channels. This shares many of the same problems as groups in email - it’s not clear which channels exist, which ones are still active, and where a particular discussion should take place. On Discourse, discussions will be visible to everyone so it doesn’t matter as much which category you choose when a topic is created. And if it seems like a topic should later be moved to another cat…

(as suggested in another topic related topic)

or have a look at Babble:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/31753

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

There’s a recent blog post from our very own @erlend_sh that goes into detail here.

Effectively using Discourse together with group chat

TL;DR we integrate tightly with chat, but we aren’t chat. The unit of work in the chat is the word. the unit of work in Discourse is the sentence and ideally the paragraph. Different beats.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Yes, we are building this now for 2.9. Timely bump…

[Decorbuz]

I assume it was bumped because of Discourse Chat?

Introducing Discourse Chat (PRE-ALPHA)

Three years ago we published a blog post about how Discourse and the long-form forum paradigm can co-exist with the short-form chat paradigm: This kind of tooling mashup works, but it has some flaws. You end up with: Duplicate user directories Competing forms of private messaging “Where does this message belong?” uncertainty Poorly integrated tools for content gardening One of the most upvoted HN stories of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: https://www.mooreds.com…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

No, it was a random bump. All the bumps are random (as long as the topic is open, and old enough / hasn’t been bumped in long enough).

[Decorbuz]

@codinghorror

All the bumps are random (as long as the topic is open, and old enough / hasn’t been bumped in long enough).

Oh, so it was just a coincidence then. Never mind…